# Internal beehive
**URL:** https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562
**Category:** Flow Hive
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562 "2017-12-12T11:21:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Semaphore](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Semaphore)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/21 "2019-09-13T01:36:21Z")
Have you read up about quilt boxes? Do you use them already on your warre hive? If not- maybe they will help with condensation.
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### Author:  [@Suses70](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Suses70)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/22 "2019-09-17T21:27:28Z")
Semaphore, sorry to be so long in reply… yes I do have a quilt box on my warre and it’s ok. I have been thinking lately that some moisture has been getting in through the back window joint!! The wood around the frame seems to stay moist, now we are getting a few day of dry weather, it’s easier to see. I will have to waterproof those joints better!!!
The flow l have put some foam in the roof and a top entrance in the brood box… things are looking better!! I had left the brood box on over winter, I don’t think I will do that again.
All the best. S
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### Author:  [@BigSkyGirl](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/BigSkyGirl)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/23 "2021-04-24T17:52:12Z")
Hi John, I’m finally back home and settled in Montana. How’s it been with your hives? I’m going to set up in a couple weeks. I was worried that I might need to consider a standard super under the Flow super to sustain the bees through our long winters. How are you doing yours and are they over wintering well?
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### Author:  [@John\_Yeager](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/John_Yeager)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/24 "2021-05-08T02:43:42Z")
On my first initial check on a warm spell in February I had 8 out of 10. After the cold snap I lost one more so I have made it thru winter with 7 hives. Did a split yesterday with one of my hives that is booming already. I have another that will need to be split as well. I need to check one of my hives I have at my friends place. I had two there and one didn’t make it thru the winter. So all in all I am happy.
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### Author:  [@BigSkyGirl](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/BigSkyGirl)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/25 "2021-05-09T05:00:14Z")
Great! Do you use 2 supers or just the 1 flow super?
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### Author:  [@John\_Yeager](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/John_Yeager)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/internal-beehive/13562/26 "2021-05-09T17:35:45Z")
I have two hives that I use strictly flow frame supers on. I have another that is a hybrid. The rest of my hives I use traditional supers. I have put another super on the hive with the flow frames on in the past but it’s typically been during the late flow in the summer. I have found that it works better just extracting one or two frames and then letting the bees fill it back up.
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